Robert Karrick: All Is Merry and Bright.

Robert Karrick: All Is Merry and Bright.

In November and December, the appearance of various Santa Clauses is so common that it is almost unnoticed. Yet, these gentlemen in their loud red suits and flowing white beards are, after all, playing a role. Their experience of being Santa for a short, intensive...
Diana Horn: Going the Extra Mile — Over and Over

Diana Horn: Going the Extra Mile — Over and Over

Diana Horn and her husband, Danny, moved from Atlanta to Bowling Green in 2009. Bowling Green, like so many other rural and smaller communities across the United States, has been hit hard by an exponential growth in poverty and hardship. Horn took this as a call to...
Diane DiCroce: Another Opening, Another Show

Diane DiCroce: Another Opening, Another Show

In the recent past, only a few blocks in New York City’s West Forties and a few other metropolitan areas offered the opportunity to experience first-rate musical theatre.  These days, top-rate musical theatre has sprung from its narrow geographical confines — and you...
Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

LAURA ORSLAND is the mother of a son with developmental disabilities. Like so many parents in similar circumstances, she was dissatisfied with the limited options for people with disabilities once they left high school. Everyone she consulted with — professionals,...